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marzo 2025
¡hola, difus@s!
un día más, un día menos (as laura barrachina used to open each covid lockdown episode of “efecto doppler”)...
since i’m a bit behind this month, we’ll get right to the month’s offerings (and save the critical retrospection for next month)…
dance: having missed batsheva dance company’s last visit to nyc, i’m very much looking forward to seeing momo at bam this week. among the other shows that have my interest piqued are makini at new york live arts, donna uchizono and bebe miller company at danspace project (¡feliz 50!), the flamenco festival program at city center, guillermina quiroga tango company at roulette, boy blue at lincoln center, spring dances at julliard, and the “fast forward” and “8 in show” programs at dixon place.
film: i’m a miguel gomes fan and so am delighted that grand tour is finally gracing our screens. lately i’ve also been wanting to revisit atom egoyan’s 1990s work (calendar is one of my all-time favorite films), so i’m curious about how his latest, seven veils, compares. other new features i’ve got my eye on are misericordia, on becoming a guinea fowl, secret mall apartment (i first heard this story on 99 percent invisible), and you burn me (accompanied by the series “matías piñeiro selects”). i’m also really excited to revisit post tenebras lux (not only is this title a motto for our moment, but i’m also a carlos reygadas fan), part of metrograph’s noteworthy “in good faith” series. other series worth looking into this month are “first look 2025,” “rendez-vous with french cinema,” and “welcome to suburbia.”
music: among this month’s new music highlights are “composing while black,” kaufman music center’s contemporary music festival, kronos quartet, and “our future voices: music and technology of the americas.” for classical and early music, check out julliard415 and julliard orchestra’s “the beethoven project,” stile antico’s “the prince of music,” gustavo dudamel and yuja wang with the ny phil, and leif ove andsnes. other concerts worth considering are la plazuela (i’ve been hooked since “mi tarara”), tarta relena (along with astrid sonne and jules reidy), dane terry, kim david smith, and a tribute to poly styrene.
performance + theater: at the top of my list this month are nyatt school redux (the wooster group can pretty much do no wrong in my book), malaise dans la civilisation (i just rewatched the century of the self with my students so am interested in how dufrense and lepage engage with freud), and bunny bunny (raja feather kelly’s the fires was quite good). other shows and festivals worth noting are amerikin, amm(i)gone, bubble schmeisis, the cherry orchard (nina hoss!!!), “lab: stripped,” purpose, spark theatre festival, and “spring breakers.” (i’d be remiss if i didn’t also mention that daniel kitson—of whom i am an ardent fan—has a new online venture, an accumulation of failure.)
art: this month’s biggest event, in terms of scale (and, probably, buzz), is anne imhof’s doom. other shows that i’m hoping to see are beatriz cortez x rafa esparza, betty parsons, cy twombly, deborah kass, etel adnan, joan jonas, george condo, guerrilla girls, henry darger, jessica stoller, laura owens, lucas samaras, “moving targets,” nick cave, pablo dávila, “past as prologue,” robert grosvenor, “the writing’s on the wall,” todd gray, and zach harris.
as always, you’ll find more in the calendar below (so, please, explore!), and anyone who’d like to join the list can sign up here.
un abrazo,
p
marzo / march
7: antonio “el turry”: the search for duende (music)
7: sirius quartet (music)
7-8: after endgame (theater)
7-8: alsop conducts brahms, muhly & the firebird (music)
7-8: momo (dance)
7-8: put away the fire, dear (dance)
7-9: beckett briefs (theater)
7-9: flamenco festival (dance)
7-9: next stage festival (theater)
7-9: on the evolutionary function of shame (theater)
7-9: on the verge (performance)
7-9: spring breakers (theater)
7-9: tango after dark (dance)
7-9: volker spengler / highfalutin (film)
7-12: doom (performance)
7-12: georgia and the butch (theater)
7-13: you burn me (film)
7-15: fidelio (music)
7-15: flamenco festival new york (dance, film, music)
7-15: i'm repeating myself (theater)
7-15: matías piñeiro selects (film)
7-15: sugarcraft (theater)
7-16: can you hear the pigeons? (theater)
7-16: grangeville (theater)
7-16: rendez-vous with french cinema (film)
7-16: touch (theater)
7-16: wounded (theater)
7-18: counterbalance (theater)
7-21: la bohème (music)
7-23: dakar 2000 (theater)
7-23: fog & filthy air (theater)
7-23: spark theatre festival 2025 (theater)
7-23: sumo (theater)
7-23: the great privation (theater)
7-29: moby dick (music)
7-30: have you met jane goodall and her mother? (theater)
7-30: lab: stripped (theater)
7-: a streetcar named desire (theater)
7-: amerikin (theater)
7-: curse of the starving class (theater)
7-: eephus (film)
7-: ghosts (theater)
7-: housewife of the year (film)
7-: mickey 17 (film)
7-: on becoming a guinea fowl (film)
7-: purpose (theater)
7-: seven veils (film)
7-: the body between us (film)
7-: the empire (film)
7-: there's still tomorrow (film)
7-: we had a world (theater)
7-: welcome to suburbia (film)
7-: wine in the wilderness (theater)
8: angel blue, soprano; lang lang, piano (music)
8: motion/matter: all-styles dance battle (dance)
8: sarah cahill: the future is female (music)
8-: beauty and the beast: the musical (theater)
9: anzû quartet: anna webber, mario diaz de leon, and ryan carter (music)
9: dvořák and janáček (music)
9: midori, violin & özgür aydin, piano (music)
10: alfonso cervera & irvin manuel gonzalez, nadia hannan, marion spencer & collaborators (dance)
10: chad hoopes, violin (music)
10: solaris (film)
10: the legacy of edward bond (theater)
10-: vanya (theater)
11: decoda (music)
11: joan didion: the center will not hold (film)
11: karen slack, soprano & kevin miller, piano (music)
11-12: ye vagabonds (music)
11-16: gauthier dance (dance)
11-16: paddy's wake (theater)
11-16: socially relevant film festival 2025 (film)
11-18: all balanchine ii (dance)
11-18: guy de maupassant: stories into films (film)
12: branciforte / deupree / greenstone / monder (music)
12: dane terry (music)
12: lang lang, piano (music)
12: palindromes (film)
12-13: with womens work & piano burning, 2021 (film)
12-16: first look 2025 (film)
12-16: twyla tharp dance (dance)
13: metropolitan klezmer (music)
13: nwa: a biomythographic rendering of x (lester st. louis / hxh / armand hammer / bongowattz) (music)
13-15: bunny bunny (performance)
13-15: donna uchizono: dedications / state of heads (1999) (dance)
13-15: terrestrial: the sprout (dance)
13-16: gustavo dudamel & yuja wang (music)
13-22: malaise dans la civilisation (theater)
13-29: lists of promise (theater)
13-: amm(i)gone (theater)
14: steven bernstein, trumpet (music)
14-15: throuple (film)
14-16: turn up the volume (theater)
14-20: él (film)
14-20: nightshift (film)
14-29: aida (music)
14-29: nyatt school redux (theater)
14-: an unfinished film (film)
14-: caligula: the ultimate cut (film)
14-: the return of benjamin lay (theater)
14-: who by fire (film)
14-: young hearts (film)
15: la plazuela (music)
15: nibal malshi: songs of the arab world (music)
15: the reminders (music)
16: contemporary music festival (music)
16: critical race therapy with kyle b. co.: orientation (performance)
16: the lady from the sea (music)
16: the stepcrew (dance)
17: elliot reza emadian, daeun jung, ke’ron j. wilson (dance)
17: queering the canon: a retrospective (music)
17: the miser (theater)
18: emel, rasha nahas (music)
18: orpheus chamber orchestra & noah bendix-balgley, violin (music)
18: the cleveland orchestra (music)
19: and then came the evening and the morning (film)
19: fast forward (dance)
19: nevermind (music)
19: the cleveland orchestra (music)
19-22: theo bleckmann (music)
19-24: middle school play (theater)
19-: aum: the cult at the end of the world (film)
19-: becoming eve (theater)
19-: let's love (theater)
20: fleur barron, mezzo-soprano; kunal lahiry, piano (music)
20: kristin lee & michael stephen brown (music)
20: sally silvers: you better (night 1) (dance)
20: sydney spann / audrey chen (music)
20: tunnel vision splintering with alex rodabaugh (dance)
20: yasuaki shimizu (music)
20-21: carnival of the animals (performance)
20-22: soloperas (music)
20-23: schneewittchen (snow white) (film)
20-29: bubble schmeisis (theater)
20-: remembrance (theater)
21: annabelle playe - arrow & synchronicity / panel conversation featuring annea lockwood (music)
21: ariacne and her orchestra (music)
21: juilliard historical performance chamber music series (music)
21: kim david smith (music)
21: nobuyuki tsujii, piano (music)
21: our future voices: music and technology of the americas (music)
21: sally silvers: you better (night 2) (dance)
21: shaina taub (music)
21: the fishbowl (la pecera) (film)
21: yasuaki shimizu (music)
21-22: ben green & ohad mazor: display case (dance)
21-24: rosemary hochschild (film)
21-: being maria (film)
21-: misericordia (film)
21-: rené clair (film)
22: crys cole / maayan tsadka (music)
22: international contemporary ensemble: composing while black (music)
22: joan as police woman (music)
22: sally silvers: you better (night 3) (dance)
22-23: wild up: darkness sounding (music)
23: les égarés (music)
23: meshell ndegeocello (music)
23: the orchestra now: joan tower & tchaikovsky’s 5th (music)
23-: die zauberflöte (music)
24: cove barton and felix bryan, mariam dingilian, aparna shankar (dance)
24: the jew of malta (theater)
24: the met orchestra chamber ensemble (music)
25: astrid sonne, tarta relena, jules reidy (music)
25: leif ove andsnes, piano (music)
25: the texas chain saw massacre & aaron dilloway (film)
25: thomas dunford (music)
25: truth future bachman (music)
25: we won’t go back: celebrating national women’s history month (film)
25: أحمد [ahmed]
25-30: hubbard street dance chicago (dance)
26: 8 in show (dance)
26: curtis on tour: jason vieaux, guitar; roberto dìaz, viola, and friends (music)
26: jason kao hwang: soliloquies and resonance (music)
26: sonatenabend (music)
26-29: kate gentile (music)
26-29: slatkin conducts shostakovich’s fifth (music)
26-29: spring dances 2025 (dance)
26-30: love life (theater)
26-: secret mall apartment (film)
26-: the cherry orcnyatthard (theater)
27: an evening with cécile mclorin salvant (music)
27: ragini festival (music)
27: the turntable trio: maria chávez, victoria shen, and mariam rezaei (music)
27-29: bebe miller company: vespers, reimagined (2025) (dance)
27-29: boy blue presents cycles (dance)
27-29: friday night rat catchers (dance)
27-: floyd collins (theater)
27-: ignite concert festival (music, theater)
28: dark gay shorts (film)
28: guillermina quiroga: tango argentina (dance)
28: kronos quartet (music)
28: thank you very much (film)
28: tribute to poly styrene (music)
28-29: brokentalkers & adrienne truscott: masterclass (performance)
28-29: comic arts fest 2025 (art, film)
28-30: schubert's trout quintet (music)
28-: grand tour (film)
28-: holy cow (film)
28-: in good faith (film)
28-: in the pinku: the return of roman porno (film)
28-: viet and nam (film)
29: avishai cohen (music)
29: black eyes, dreamcrusher (music)
29: juilliard415 and juilliard orchestra | the beethoven project (music)
29: leonkoro quartet (music)
29: mahler chamber orchestra; mitsuko uchida, piano and director (music)
29: stile antico (music)
29-: a mother (theater)
30: suspended in time (music)
30: the huntsman, or the gay disturbance of my childhood (performance)
30-: drifting through time: focus on lee kang-sheng (film)
30-: the swamp dwellers (theater)
31: composers concert (music)
31-: le nozze di figaro (music)